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[arch-general] associations for chromium
by Sergey Manucharian 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Hi folks, I wonder if somebody could already figure out how to handle file and protocol associations for Chromium. For those who use a DE like KDE/Gnome most probably everything works out of box. There is an article in wiki how to use chromium with no DE [1]. It suggest to use mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo, but it simply does not work (at least in my case). For those who are interested to read further the details are below. When I click a link pointing to mms:// stream chromium pops up a message that it's going to use xdg-open to handle it. The xdg-utils-mimeo allows to associate a protocol with an application, which I already has done - set to mplayer. Instead it tries to open smplayer with no (or bad) link passed. I've uninstalled smplayer and it tried to use realplayer, I've uninstalled realplayer and now it uses vlc. I couldn't find where that sequence is hardcoded. But now I see that the link itself is getting transformed in something weird: ----------------------------8<---------------------------- File reading failed: VLC could not open the file "/etc/X11/mms:/76.191.112.53/streams_e/stb1_s_8b700762e4ba88f62c33ce2291e1baaa.wmv". Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'file:///etc/X11/mms%3A/76.191.112.53/streams_e/stb1_s_8b700762e4ba88f62c33ce2291e1baaa.wmv'. ----------------------------8<---------------------------- The strange path "/etc/X11" comes is the directory I've accidentally started X from... Any ideas? TIA Sergey [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium

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[arch-general] Pulseaudio
by Χρήστος Κώτσαρης 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

On a more serious mode now: As the devs themselves said, pulseaudio is optional, unless you are using GNOME, which requires Pulseaudio upstream. There is nothing clearer than that. Go blame GNOME developers. There is something i noticed. Morgan Gandwere is a Debian convert... That explains a lot of things actually. Debian is known to modify every possible package, since Debian maintainers are more wise and of course they know better than upstream developers about upstream software. Debian is known to fork a package when some upstream developer does not accept a debian maintainer's POS patch. Then the package is left to rott and die, since the debian maintainer is not able to develop it. Debian users are used to this mentality. That explains why someone with this background believes that a distribution should modify upstream to fit its maintainers whims. Sometimes there have been packages i wanted that didn't make part of Arch, even though in my opinion they should. For example, libxft-lcd was in community, while lib32-libxft-lcd was not. I asked in the forum to include that too, but instead, libxft-lcd went to AUR also. I didn't bitch about it, i just use AUR and that's it. One can't expect a whole distribution to accomondate his personal needs. So pulseaudio haters, since pulseaudio is optional, the only reason you complain is that you don't want it in extra, you don't want to install libpulse since you cant afford 1MB disk space, and you also don't want media packages compiled with pulse support because of a purely theoritical bloat. Well, you can't expect the distro to remain behind the times and not include proper (optional) pulse support for these reasons. If 1 mb of disk space and tiny bits of memory bloat in executables is such a waste for you, you could recompile those packages, or even better, try Gentoo. I hear Gentoo is really fast and without bloat. After 60 hours of compiling your apps start 5ns faster. Great!

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Re: [arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]
by Χρήστος Κώτσαρης 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Regarding phonon being dropped, after some googling it seems i was mistaken, what i had read was that Qt framework is dropping phonon, not KDE. But still, i believe it would be sane to drop phonon in KDE too and replace it with Pulseaudio, it is the best choice. No need for 2 sound servers when one could do the trick. Plus, in case someone says Phonon can switch sound cards without the app restarting, everytime i try it Amarok and others crash, so yes, it needs restarting...

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[arch-general] archlinux hardware question
by Jude DaShiell 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Has anyone managed to get archlinux up and running on either a sled drive or a full-sized usb drive yet. Another Linux system I have couldn't even detect the disk drive was in the machine and I gave it my best hard drive too. Slackware has no problem with the drive, but Debian squeeze or an earlier edition of lenny squeeze had problems too.

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[arch-general] Pulseaudio
by Christos Kotsaris 29 Nov '10

29 Nov '10

Well Morgan Gangwere since all of us Arch users understand this greatly important need to play a 13 year game on an 11 year old machine, we should rollback all changes and send pulseaudio in AUR where it belongs. I mean, we can't leave behind every cheap computer user who can't be bothered to buy even a 5 years old used machine, can we? I mean, Linux is about supporting antics isn't it? We should accomondate those needs, because we might lose this kind of user. He might just go and install Windows 7 on his coppermine. I mean, Windows always supported 11 year old pcs, why Arch wont? Please developers, reconsider.

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[arch-general] problem with usb device recognition
by Scott Weisman 28 Nov '10

28 Nov '10

Hi Archers, I have a Logitech Quickcam 9000. It works great under Linux. Suddenly, it seems to have stopped working so great. I now get errors like this: Nov 28 22:29:07 gulliver kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 5 disabled Nov 28 22:29:07 gulliver kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2 I just upgraded and rebooted, as I saw a new kernel was available and thought that might solve the problem. But it still persists. Any suggestions? Scott

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36.1-3
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.36 series for both arches, Latest and greatest moved to testing, including most patches from the stable queue of 2.6.36.2. In 2.6.36.1-3 the usb issues are fixed. Please signoff for both arches that we can move everything soon. Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Features included: - Tomoyo support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21533 - Apparmor support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21533 - Build RTC support into kernel: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21137 - changed cpu support to 64 on x86_64 - added hugetables support: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20862 - disabled RDS modules due to security concerns: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21510 - pcieaspm enabled greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Latest xf86-video-intel: X issues
by mwnn 27 Nov '10

27 Nov '10

Hi, After upgrading to the latest xf86-video-intel package I am facing the following problems: - XDM is not visible (only the mouse pointer shows up; Even though I am able to login by entering my username and password). - Windows do not move fluently. There is a clearly visible drag. Regards, mwnn

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[arch-general] [signoff] xfsprogs-3.1.4-1
by Tobias Powalowski 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff both arches, thanks greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] wireless-regdb 2010.11.24-1
by Thomas Bächler 26 Nov '10

26 Nov '10

Upstream update, please sign off.

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